Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1896 — Page 4

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TIIC laDIAXAPOLIS JOLItXAL Ca) be found at U10 following places PEW YOKK-G Uttj House, Windsor Hotel and Astor House. CtiiCAUO !"almer House and Y. O. News Co SI Aaras stmt, . CLMl.N N ATI-J. K. Uawlsy A Co., 1U YIj street. 1CISVIIAE C T. Deennr. northwest corner of TUJnJ and Jsfftrsoa kU ana LouUrUie Book Cu., &4 Fourth ate. . CT. LUL LS Union News Company, Union Depot. tTASHINOTON, D. O Rlgg floaw. Kbbitt House. WUlard'i Hotel and the Waalilngton S'sws Exchangs, Isth street, bel reua. a? a. ami V street Murderer Holmes Bays he has a double. One Is enough of the kind; but If the other one can be hanged too it will help the cause of justice. The one thing which overshadows everything- else in the minds of. the American people is a determination to undo the mistake of four years ago. An instruction to a delegate to vote for a candidate as long as there is a reasonable prospect of his nomination is like sending a boy to shuck corn as long as he feels like it, The effort of Missouri Democratic leaders to organize and raise morey to press' the candidacy of Bland for President hows that they have gone daft on the silver question. The talk about Speaker Reed being nominated for Vice President must come from' those who believe that officeholding la Hie one desire 'of men who have achieved success in public life. Canada has a general election at hand which will give the politicians of that dependency all the occupation they will need until the voting is over. As religious prejudices are involved, it will be an intensely bitter conflict. BSaBaiBaaaBHaBMBBnBaaMaiaaiBsaassHBsaBSHBsaiaaaaasB When .r the Republican Governor - of South ' Dakota writes that the Republicans ofjhat State have declared for sound money with a great deal of emphasis on the word "sound," the Republicans of Indiana should not retreat behind vague expressions. An admirer of Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, asserts that that personage is much stronger in the State than his party;:y As; Illinois Democrats have no strength" worth mentioning this year, the statement is' of less tlgnlflcance than might otherwise be the case. . SManaaaHSiMBaaisBaBsssssssaasaiaawssissBaassiBaaaBBBS) T "The retaining of money at home and its distribution. In exchange for American pfoducts'Insteud. of sending it abroad In payment of foreign products" is one of the. reasons- given by an Kastern man, who,, was a. Democrat a few years ago, fqr. the election of . a -Republican president . . 1 - .One; of the May. magazines . has an artlciff 6n "Mr. -Olne as a Presidential Possibility.? Whatever Mr. Olney may have been months ago,' when this May magazine was ' made up, he Is not a presidential possibility now. In the discussion of politics there are advantages in being up to date. Farmers of Indiana who are now getting not over 12 cents a pound for their wool should remember that In 1890 they got about 22 cents a pound therefor. The X)emocratIc tariff law has robbed them of IS) cents a'poiijcl. Free wool is one of the things' whlch-. every Democrat who may be elected to Congress will fight for to the end. The ChlcAgo Tribune calls attention to the fact that the stockholders in building and loan associations in Illinois have invested JS2.630.000 in shares, and adds that Gcvernor.Altgeld and the silveritcs propose to destroy half of the. value of this money for the purchase of the necessaries of life by the free and unlimited coinage" of silver on the basis of 16 to 1. A system of representation like that upon which the membership of the late county convention was based is opeu to criticism. Two delegates were given to each precinct, the remainder being on the basis of Republican votea cast in nun dreds and. major fractions thereof. Thus a ward -which, cast 1,500 Republican votes In eleven precincts got less than a thhrd more delegates than another with fcurteen precincts which cast COO Republican votes. The Washington correspondent ot the Chicago Record asserts that Senator BrWe, of Ohio, will not only look after the sound-money Interests of the Democratic party in his own State, but will look after those of the same party in Indiana, Mr. Brice has assumed a big Job, but he is more popular now than he was two years ago. when the body of the Democratic State convention wished to denounce him by name. Many Indiana Democrats now wish that Brlce and Gorman had prevented the passage of the Democratic tariff. The Hon. John Gilbert Shanklln, it will be remembere-i was traveling up and down Indiana declaring that 90 per cant, of the Democrats were panting to have Mr. Cleveland nominated for President. The result of the conventions In Indiana did not warrant the 90 per cent assumption. But that Is not the most important part of the Shanklln recollection. As the shouter of 90 per cent, for Cleveland. Mr. Shanklln was not recognized by President Cleveland when the pie was served. Those who are now shouting 90 per cent, in the expectation of and simply for McKinley pie may profit by the nl:rcrtur.s cf Mr. Shanklln. T2 rrezldcnt 1 very much of a civilc:ivl:t tzIztzzzt titer all cf ihz places

have been filled by Democrats. When it comes to branches of the public service in which men should be retained for their technical or scientific knowledge he is not so particular. To illustrate: a few days ago he appointed Mr. Brlce Fish Commissioner. No sooner was he in office than he removed Mr. Gill, who has been in the bureau twenty years and is familiar with every detail of the business as well as the technical work. Heretofore politics has had nothing to do with appointments in the fish bureau, but Mr. Cleveland has put it into the line of partisanship. icxsio i.l:;islati().

The speech of Representative Overstreet In the House on Saturday, which was published yesterday, 13 a model, concise and clear statement, and of that temperate expression which, while it does not offend any, carries conviction to candid people. Mr. Overstrcet has made clear the injustice of the Cleveland policy In the Pension Bureau. By a dispassionate statement Of . the methods of the bureau Mr. Oyerstreet has made a stronger case against the present regime than If he had Indulged in a vehement tirade.agalnst Hoke Smith. The proposition which Mr. Overstrect sustains is sound. After, an applicant for a pension has run the gauntlet of five reviewing boards and a pension Is awarded him it should not be taken away from him by any Commissioner of Pensions who obtains his Information from a subordinate. When a pension is assailed, except for fraud, the evidence of which the bureau should have, the claimant should be notified not only of the fact but of the grounds of the action, and furnished with the names of those who have supplied, the evidence. Now the pensioner is required to furnish evidence to sustain a case which he has already made. In Justice the government should furnish and lay before the person whose pension is attacked' the evidence it possesses that he may rebut it If he is able. . In this connection it may be added that the chief cause, of real complaint against the", pension -system is the favoritism which has prevailed. Congressmen have been able to have pensions granted fof a higher rate than the pensioner deserved, and. in many cases, where pensions should not have been issued. There are several hundred such cases in this State. All that the Congressman should be permitted to do is to call the attention of the heads of the bureau to cases and to the needs of the applicant. Any testimony Which the Congressman may offer should.be In the form of an aflidavit. Perhaps the greatest evil of the pension system is the passage of special bills in favor of persons who are not entitled to any pension or to higher rates than the law allows, The act of 1890 was designed-to put an end to a large part of the special pensioning by awarding liberal pensions to those who cannot trace their disability to the service. By general law Congress has made $12 a month the highest pension for a man who cannot trace' his disability to the service. This being the case, there is no reason why any such ex-soldier should be awarded a larger" amount by a special act of Congress. "If an ex-soldier loses a' leg out of the service he should not be pensioned the same as one who lost a leg in battle, yet such was the aim of a bill which the President vetoed the other day. All such special pension legislation should cease. All such bills as that which . Senator Turple introduced a short time since to make a pension of $72 a month granted fifteen years ago extend back ten years, taking over $7,000 out of the treasury, should be rejected. ' Another evil is that of correcting the records of men who have been content to stand as deserters a quarter of a century. The government has offered such men the assistance of a commission to have their records cleared of any inaccuracy. It was not until a pension was the attraction that many applied.' Now, when they have applied to the commission and there is no evidence to relieve them of the charge of desertion they go .to Congress with ah ex parte statement, which has been rejected by the commission referred to, as the basis hot an act of Congress to remove the charge of desertion, not because it has been a stigma all these years, but because it stands between them and the pension roll. If Congress should reject all such bills now and then a possibly innocent man might suffer, but it is far better that one innocent man should suffer from his own neglect than that a great wrong be perpetrated by opening the way for a hundred deserters to get their names on the pension roll. TUB TWO-TIIIIIDS UULb- THREATENED. . The rllver Democrats in Missouri and other localities have expressed a desire to drop the two-thirds rule which has governed Democratic nominations for the presidency since 1844. If they have a majority of the Chicago convention and make a platform to their liking they do not propose to be prevented from putting a 16-to-l candidate thereon by a rule which has been tolerated In twelve national conventions since 1844, and which prevented the nomination of Douglas in 1S60. The two-thirds rule was devised by the minority in the Democratic national convention in 1844 to prevent the nomination of Martin Van Buren. This minority was determined on the admission of Texas, and it knew that Van Buren was not favorable. It had no candidate, and many of its members were ostensibly in favor of Van Buren. who was the only candidate with any strength. A decided majority of the conventions selecting delegates had instructed them to vote for Van Buren.' Nothing else was expected .than his nomination; first, because a majority of the delegates were instructed to vote for him, and, second, because the opposition had not concentrated upon any one candidate. When one of the conspirators presented the two-thirds rule a large part of the Van ISuren delegates voted for It. in spite of the protests of the few who saw that it was designed to defeat their candidate. It is probable, however, that some of the delegates instructed to vote for Van Buren favored the scheme for the reason that they were secretly ho3tlle to his nomination. ; The rule was adopted. On the first ballot Van Buren had & good majority, but less than two-thirds. The remainder of the votes were divided between men who bid beta cc!ica of 3 poz-ibilitisa and

a few favorite sons. After two or three

ballots, in which Van Buren's vote fell off, his friends withdrew his name. This was what the annexationists desired. After one or two scattering votes the name of James K. Polk was presented. As he had not antagonized the real can didates he received a large part of the Van Buren votes, some of them voting for him upon the representation that his nomination would please General Jack son. As 'for Mr. Polk's friends in Ten nessee, who had, in a legislative caucus, indorsed him for the vice presidency, they were surprised at the turn affairs had taken. Finally, Mr. Polk got a twothirds vote simply because there was no other man upon whom the Van Buren men, who had-no candidate after his withdrawal, could unite. Thus did a mlrority favoring the annexation of Texas capture the Democratic convention and secure a nominee who was pliant clay i i the hands, of the conspirators. Since that time the two-thirds rule has been adopted with the other rules, and. being observed so long In making nominations, it may be said to have the force of law. It is at least a tradition nearly as old as Democratic national conven tions. But the Blands, the Tlllmans and like reckless silver leaders are not In a temper to heed party precedent and tradition. The killing of five people at Rockvllle by a man who then shot and killed himself is one of those horrors before which the public stands aghast. There was, apparently, no way of preventing the deed, since no one suspected the designs of the murderer. Indeed, it is probable that he had no fixed design, but shot the persons he did because they chanced to come In his way. He was unquestionably a lunatic whose mind had suddenly given way. If signs of mental weakness had before manifested themselves they had not been noticed or had not been sufficiently marked to serve as a warning. Similar tragedies have been numerous during the past year, the murderous mania being in most cases, however, directed toward the immediate family of the insane person. Several men in Chicago have slaughtered their wives and children in sudden maniacal frenzy, and cases of the kind have been reported from various parts of the country. . The quick transition from seeming calmness and sanity to ungovernable fury shows the delicate balance between the sound and the unsound mind, but as yet science has discovered no .way by which the tipping of the scales to the wrong side may be predicted with certainty. Until that is done there is a possibility that lunatics may run amuck at any time to the undoing of any one In their path. While Mr. Manley's figures are absolutely ridiculous, those of General Grosvenor contain not a little of that element. For instance, in his list he claims nine of the sixteen delegates in Maryland, when the Maryland convention voted by nearly ten to one not to instruct for Governor McKinley. Again, he claims sixteen of the twenty delegates in New Jersey, when the State convention unanimously elected Senator Scwell upon the understanding that there should be no Instructions. If General Grosvenor should strike from his list the names of all the delegates who are not instructed to vote for his candidate his list would be very much smaller. Governor McKinley can count upon many more than those who are Instructed, but his Ohio manager, in insisting upon Instructions in this State, leaves the public to assume that he does not count on delegates who have not some mark of the branding iron upon them. It appears that there are some very objectionable features in the Pickler pension bill. If there are sections recognizing bounty Jumpers and quasi deserters as entitled to the pensions which should be given only to men who served faithfully and were honorably discharged the bill, even if it has sections which would put an end to the hostile policy of the present administration, should ; be defeated. The bill is the work of Mr. Pickler, of South Dakota, and has been presented by the sanction of the pension committee, of which he is chairman. Mr. Pickler, while a well-meaning man, is something of a crank and a victim of the free silver mania. It may be that a man who cannot distinguish between sound and unsound money may not be able to distinguish the difference between an honorably discharged soldier and a bounty Jumper who was a deserter for revenue. The American Economist copies from Bradstreefs the prices of live stock in Chicago April 1, 1892. and April 1. 1896, as follows: April 1,1832. April 1.18D6. Steers, per 100 pounds... $4.95 $3.80 heep, per 100 pounds... 6.25 3.5) Hogs, per 100 pounds .... 4.90 3.15 Horses, each 162.0 60.00 lieef, per pound 06 .06 Ho?, per pound C6U .013-3 Mutton, ifc r pound 0-v .06Vi liacon, per pound ...... .03 2-3 .05 The list might have been' extended to Include every article produced on the farm, but the foregoing is sufficient to enable the average farmer to decide which tariff has robbed the farmer, the Republican tariff of 1890 or the Democratic tariff of 1894. North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Tennessee in fact, all the States which have held Republican conventions,' except Ohio and Kansas, have declared unequivocally against the free coinage of silver. Such being the situation, the suggestions of evasion in some quarters or of saying anything less than that the Republicans of Indiana are opposed to the free coinage of sliver would be unwise In the extreme. The Republican press of Indiana has never been more outspoken upon any question than It has been for sound money. The Evening News is much shocked at the egotism displayed in the biographical, or. as it assumes, the autobiographical sketch of one of the Republican candidates for Governor. It sajs it thinks self-praise is in bad taste and rebukes the candidate. It certainly is in atrociously bad taste, and it is gratifying to know that the News -has at last learned the fact. After its own long and persistent Indulgence in self-glorification It was hardly to be hoped that It would ever discover the merits and becomlngness of modesty. It will doubtless make prompt application of its new-found, truth and will henceforth refrain.: from the unseemly exhibitions of self-conceit to which Its weary readers have become accustomed. If it can not break off the habit; at once of telling how great It Is and what trerr.tndoui thirds wa" have Csne and can do and art

to do, let It taper off and. Glorify, ray, every other day , for a time. It really ought to reform for the sake of its readers who are Influenced in spite of themselves by ceaseless

iteration even of things that are not true. If be It were not for hiaund politics it might suspected that the candidate In Question ad been one of the News's constant read ers. Let It.be decently modest and set a better example to the overly susceptible. The British lion is getting In fair position to have its tail given a double twist down In South Africa. Th' mint rnnfpnt tho tnr eager German gentleman who vented his patriotic animosity on a Chicago circus lioa. Hargrove, the newly elected president of the : American theosopnists, has, or course, -line connection with the Himalaya ma air hat mas, it will be useful in the approaching heated term. IIIUIILES XX THE AI1U -ot Gifted. "She has the fatal gift of beauty " "Oh. dear, nor hsr ihonifv (a nr Hff ktVio has paid big money for every bit of IL" The Patriot. "Wy. yes," admitted the true American with the three day3 beard, "W'y, yes, Shakspeare's truck Is pretty good er would be pretty good, if he wam't a darn Britisher." June Agrnln. Oh, Jane, the mem'ry gives her pain, The day that she a pebble hapt to strike; While her wheel, without Its load, Slid away across the road An3 her golden hair was hanging to her bike. - ' ' I'lextMunt Life In Prospect. "And shall I speak to your father?" asked the young man. "Never mind about nani." said th vnnn? woman. 141 fix him." For the first time he noticed the width and squareness of her inferior maxillary'. The .w Woman. With strong clear eyes and dauntless face, With firm-poised figure free and bold, Mettled In mind for any race, x roui ot ner right to dare and hold, I watch her on her lovous wav This girl with an Imperial sway. Gentle? Ah, yes, I've seen her so, Gentle as any matins dove. And full at heart of tender glow inat Dngatens to a siren s love. While ajl her blossoming soul is rife With the sweet fellowship of life. Yet dignity and, will are hers, And fearlessness in bitter hours; What wonder that her worshippers Swear by her words, her smiles, her flowers? ' Yet I, who feel her radiant youth. Swear by her virtue and her truth. Harper's Weekly. THREE NATIONAL TICKETS. The I'ollllcnl Situation un It Appears . --n jw u xonpartlsan. Review, of. Reviews. , .'But the very completeness and success of the party f machine in New York, which avows Useif - eatiafled' with Governor Morton and pretends to support him as a presidential candidate, is what makes Governor Morton an impossibility. The willing and obedient servant of a State or local machine has never yet been accepted by a national Republican convention; and this year of all years is going to belong to public opinion rather than to political bosses. Party machinery is destined this year - to-be very seriously fractured. There will be at least three strong presidential tickets in the rield. If Mr. McKinley should be nominated at St. Louis there will certainly be a split at Chicago. The result of that split will be an extreme gold party and an extreme silver party. The Republican phalanx, on the other hand, will not spilt In the center. It will merely lose a part f Its extreme right wing, and a part of its extreme left wing. That is to say, some Eastern business men who call themselves Republicans would rather support a candidate like Carlisle on a gold platform than support McKinley on a compromise pfiank. On the other hand, many of the far Western. Republicans, under the lead of Senator Tel'.er and his friends, would rather support a Democratic ticket headed by a man like Governor Boles, of Iowa, on a free silver platform, than support McKinley or Mr. Allison not to mention Mr. Reed on such a platform as the Republicans are likely to adopt at St. Louis. As for the Populists, they are going to wait and see what happens in the Republican and Democratic conventions. It has been for some time very stronjtfy hinted that the free sliver forces of all parties may unite unon Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, as their candidate, and persuade him to accept the nomination. It would seem easier, however, to hold -the Southern vote with a Western Democrat like Governor Boles as the pro-silver candidate. It Is not impossible that the break-up of party machinery may give us four formidable tickets, but It is now practically certain that there will be at least three. McKinley and the Favorite Sons. Parke County Journal.' We have thought his name was William McKinley, and have said so, but the affairs of men move on mysterious lines. All purely selfish acts defeat their own purpose while defeating that of others. William McKinley is to-day as clearly the first choice of the lay members of the Republican party as Cleveland once was of the lay members of the Democratic party. But his sheaf stood up In the field and bowed to him, and soon after the sheaves of the other favorite sons rose up In the field and bowed to his she.if. Because cf thJs, his brethren, the other favorite sons, are going to sell him, if they have not already done so. to some traders who are heading for St. Louis. They will smear his ccat with blood and cast it into a silver mine and report that repudiating beasts have torn him up. Hut all the same William will be at St. Louis, and, like Joseph In' Egypt.' will have much influence there. When these other favorite sons go to St. Louis to get -much desired. If not needed corn, they will be given a few small nubbins and a little expense money, and sent back after Benjamin, before they can get any guarantee against starvation. They will have to give ample guarantees for the safety and kind treatment of Benjamin before he will go to St. Louis. After he does go he will receive tho chief attention, and at the dinner he will have five times as much put on his plate as will be put on those of the other sons; and when they all start home he will have five times as many gcod clothes, and good things In his sack as they, and If William's cup shall be found in his sack, It will be later shown to the satisfaction of William and the world that Ben. jamin did not steal It. The other sons will have ample time to reflect on the results of their crooked work. Again It will pe demonstrated that the best laid plans o mice and favorite sons aft gang agley. Plntt noil McKinley. New York World (Dem.) The boss of New York expresses, for publication only, the opinion that McKinley will not be nominated at St. Louis. We pay Mr. Piatt's Intelligence the compliment of believing that this is not ( the opinion which he keeps out of reach of the press X rays. Though not great as a national politician, ho must kno that McKinley's nomination is certain. When he Intimates, however, th.it the World is "booming McKinley" possibly for the reason that "it wants the Republican convention to nominate him because it thinks he will be the easiest man to beat," he is partly right. The World has not "boomed" McKinley. "It simply discovered and published ahead of other newspapers the fact that he was the logical candidate of his party, and that the masses of Republicans nearly everywhere were for him and would demand and secure his nomination. We also said, and silll maintain, that with a strong candidate, a sound platform and a united party, squarely antagonizing 'McKinleyism at every point, the Democrats would have a better chance to win than under any other conditions. Admission of Women. Washington Post. It is possible Indeed, it is deemed highly probable Lhat the M. E. General Conference will exercise its prerogative to grant the demand In spite of this failure. The members of that body must see that this change is inevitable, that-it is in harmony with the trend of events all over the civilized world. It were as easy to stop the flow of the tides, or reverse the course of rivers, as to halt the advancement of woman toward her rightful place. The vote of almost three-quarters of the membership shows the depth and strength of the feeling that has grown up during this long struggle. Not only in the church, but outride of it, popular sympathy lj with the women in this movement. But. whether the General Con ference, at its approaching meeting, shall onen the doors or decide to keen them barred, the women will succeed. No one doubts 'that one mere test will win more than the three-fourths vote required. . Cmtl Iltuark. Buffalo Courier Ccr.ator Canf ron tnr.sunccs that he is out of pell tics. .PoUtlcs la f ta ccrratulated.

DEFIANT PEKSBYTERS

SEW YORKERS SOT DISPOSED TO OBEY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Trouble Over the Licenses of Students Attending Seminaries Whose Teachings Have Been Disavowed. NEW YORK, April 27. The meeting of the New York Presbytery to-day for the purpose of voting on the report of the committee on the minutes of the General Assembly proved to be the liveliest session that that body has held in a long time. .The matter was up before the presbytery last week, but action was deferred until to-day. A year ago the preifrytery asked the General Assembly for service In the matter of receiving candidates for the ministry. The General Assembly replied as follows: "We recommend that, in accordance with the provisions of the form of government previously cited, the 1'resbytery of New York be Instructed and enjoined not to receive under its care for licensure students who are pursuing, or propose to pursue, their studies in theological seminaries respecting whose teaching the General Assembly disavowed responsibility." The committee on the minutes of the General Assembly consisted of Rev. Dr. John C. Bliss, Dr. W. W. Atterbury and George II. Hyde. These gentlemen presented their report last week. The report stated: "Your committee reports that, having examined the minutes ot the assembly, we find the ortly subject requiring the special attention or the presbytery to be that presented in answer or the assembly to the overture from this presbytery for Instruction relative to Its duty, towards students applying to bo taken under its care who are pursuing, or propose to pursue, their studies in theological seminaries regarding whose teaching tho General Assembly disavows responsibility. In its answer, the General Assembly gives this presbytery certain instructions for which all due consideration should be given by us a loyal presbyters. But the asiembly further proceeds to enjoin 'the presbytery as to Its action with reference to the licensure of these students. In thus attempting to authoritatively control the presbytery in this matter, it seems to us that the General Assembly exceeds Its constitutional powers and infringes on the inherent rights of the presbytery, which are specially reserved to it by our constitution, as to the exercise of its functions in the reception and licensure of candidates." It was this second paragraph in the report that caused the trouble a week ago and resulted in a three hours wrangle today. The trouble began at the outset, when sorno of the members wanted to know if they could not leave word how they desired to vote cn the committee's report, as they had to go away early to a meeting of the church extension committee. It was decided that they could not, under the rules, and that th would have to remain and vote in person. It was understood that the General Assembly aimed at Union Theological Sem inary, over which the,re has been so much controversy for the past few years, and today the members of the presbytery who sided with the General Assembly urged that the report of the committee should not be adopttd. Dr. John Hall caused a sensation when he said that his Idea of what the presbytery should do would be to say in reply to the General Assembly: "That the presbytery of New York desires to report respectfully to the General Assembly that it only receives ministers from other presbyteries or denominations on being satisfied of their acceptance of the standards of the church and that it is tne presbytery's intention to apply the same principles In the preservation of scriptural doctrines to all applicants for license. That the presbytery desires, on the one side, to hold fast to the truth as embodied In our standards and at the same time in the interest of peace end mutual good will does not exclude from application for licenses students who give evident assurance cf their loyalty to the standards of our church." The Rev. Dr. Charles S. Robinson said he would not allow any majority of the presbytery to speak ' for him, especially when the presbytery sought .to. prevent the General Assembly from giving them instruction. "I loathe these discussions." said the speaker, "they have been, going on for four or five years without any .beneficial .result." - The Itev. unanes Xj. xnompson ouerei . resolution that the statement of ..Mr. Hall be adopted as a substitute to the resolution of Dr. Alexander at the previous meeting. Dr. Alexander had moved that the language in the report of the committee be considered as the expression of the opinion of tho presbytery. The motion to substitute the statement read by Dr. Hall for the report of the committee caused no end of confusion. The report of the committee-had been accepted a week ago, nut mat was an mai was done about it, and Dr. Alexander s motion that it be considered the expression of the opinion of the presbytery was pending when Dr. Hall read his statement toDr. Alexander seconded Mr! Thompson's motion for the substitute. The Rev. James Chambers, moderator, explained the matter to the members, but as half a dozen Insisted In talking at once only a few seemed to understand what was before the meeting. Itev. Dr. J. Ford Sutton repeated his arguments of a week fcefore that the General Assembly was supreme and that it had a perfect right to enjoin the presbytery. After a three hours' discussion the substitute was adopted by a vote of Bl to 47. The Itev. Mr. Birch was heard from again. He said that it was the constitutional privilege of the General Assembly to give Instruction to the presbytery. The controversy concerning theological students or the Union Seminary against whose errors In doctrine and Illegality, if not immorality, in practice the assembly had already borne testimony to. A second vote was taken on the amendment, and it was adopted by a vote of 61 to 42. Many members refused to vote on the ground that they did not know twhat the vote was about. The moderator made several explanations, but the Rev. J. Ford Sutton was not satisfied, and stated, that he would complain of the proceedings to the synod. - . It would seem as if the statement read by Dr. Hall expressed the opinion of a majority of the presbytery, but at the meeting the report of the committee may be taken up again and some other action taken. . WILL WOOD'S LETTERS. (Concluded from Flrwt Page.) where the large blood spot was. There was much blood there."' . "Did you see the prints of a rubber about the hcene of the murder?,, "Yes; on the north side of the spot -where the body lay." i "Did you notice any more imprints In the M"Yes. sir; as If a person had been lying down." - . "Where was thlsr "V,'. "Between the two spots of blood. He was then asked to detail th-v incarceration of Jackson and Walling in me sensitive cell in the City Hall. It was the. first time, as far as he knew, that the two prisoners had been in talking and .hearing distance of each other In any cell since their arrest. The sensitive cell contains two apartments. and it is across the hall from all the other cells. The prisoners were left alone. No one could see Jackson and Walling while they were in this cell, and Jackson and Walling saw no cne and did not know of any one being about them in the cell. The prisoners were in the cell between one and two hours. The cell was connected by a telephone arrangement with the House of Detention, on the third floor of police headquarters. There were instruments in the Hoi(se of Detention where persons could sit and listen to voices in the sensitive cell. There were more than two, possibly four. ' , . He and Crlm searched Jackson and Waiting's room between 9 anl 10 a. m.. Feb. 9. They found two ladles' handkerchiefs and a pair- of stockings behind the trunk, a pocketbook with a piece of chain In It. and two pairs of white kid gloves in the trunk and a cap In the closet. The trunk was a la'-ge cne, with the Initials "S. J." It was pointed out by Miss Rose McNevin, he Delieved, as Jackson's trunk. Several letter addressed, to Scott Jackson were found in the trnkARTICLEg IDENTIFIED. The detective then Identified the articles he found In the room. They were handed to him by Colonel Nelscn for this purpose, and were the same that "detective Crim had identified earlier In the day. The cap Is the one that Allen Johnson identified as Waiting's, and as the one which Jackson wore in Walllncfcrd's saloon when the prisoner was there on the evening of the murder. The pocketbook, chain, stockings' and handkerchiefs have been identified as Pearl Bryan's. Continuing his testimony. McDurmort said. "I got the valises, opened them, took out the clothes and spread thm on the fl)or. What ia on those clothes?' asked the Meyor of Jackson. Jackson picked them up, smelled the spots and said, Yes. It's blood.' " Attorney Crawford asked McDermott why ho culled the handkerchiefs found behind Jackson's trunk ladies handkerchiefs. He then answered that he thousat they looked like ladies' handkerchiefs. The nsxt witness was reporter J. E. Grlllo, of Clnclnr-iti. He testified that he was present when thj prisoner x:z errched. Grille visa lustra I carl r l-erchi:::.

and Identified them as having been found on Jackson when he was searched. Grllloasked Jackson where he got them. Jackson replied that he had found them on a CummlnsvUle car the Sunday preceding his arrest. Two bridge, tickets were also found on Jackson. The ticket he read was a carriage ticket, and read, "horse and vehicle." Attorney Crawford objected to the witness testifying about the last ticket, which was sustained. The Judge held that the testimony about tickets found on the prisoner was clearly competent. Grlllo said he laid the ilekets on the desk In the presence of Lieutenant Corbln. of the police. Attorney Crawford now asked for the production of the ml.slng ticket. The prosecution disclaimed ability to do it. AT H EIDER'S HOTEL. Charles Rogers, a dark, heavy-set man, was the next witness. He lives in Cincinnati and has been engaged at Heider' restaurant at No. S3 West Fifth street, Cincinnati. Alonzo Walling and Scott Jack, son boarded at "the hotel. He saw Jackson in the early morning of Feb. 1. Walling, ho said, came in about 3 a. m., no earlier. Walling was in a burry and asked for a room. He wore his overcoat. Walling took off his hat and shook off the water. His manner was not specially unusual. It was the first time Walling ever slept at tho hotel. The upper part of Walllng's cloth Ing was wet. Walling only talked to him a few minutes. He said he was in a hurry and the witness sent waiter Martin up to the room with Walling. The witness wasin bed when Walling left in the morning. The way Rogers fixed the time was by th register. But the witness had been to th museum when It was amateur night, and Friday is always amateur night. The boys Who went with him stayed up till Just before Walling entered. Rogers was sure it was the morning of Feb. 1. y The next witness was Helder's Hotel night waiter William C. Martin, aged twentytwo. He told about taking Walling to hia room on the morning of Feb. 1 at about 3 o'clock. He also identified Jackson as having boarded at Heider's. Walling paid 15 cents for the room. The last two witnesses testified that Walling came in at about 3 a. m. It is considered interesting in the light of George Jackson's story that the cab containing Jackson and Walling left the corner of George and Elm streets at 12:20 a. m. It is considered by those who know a most remarkablo feat of the two prisoners making the round trip from Fort Thomas and back to Mullen's stable on Walnut Hills and down town again in less than three hours. Lieut. George Saffarans, stationed at Fort Thomas, the next witness, testified about seeing the headless body on Locke's farm near the fort. He was asked what he found there. "A body of a woman," he replied. "It was lying on Its back. A corset was on the ground near the body. It had blood stains on it, something like bloody linger marks." THE CORSET IDENTIFIED. Lieutenant Saffarans Identified the corset in court as the one he saw at the scene of the murder. "Describe the other clothing on the body." She had on a green checked dress. 6hort walsted, a sort of house wrapper." The witness then identified the. dress found on tho body. "Did you notice the underclothing on tho body?" "I noticed she had on a union suit of underwear. There was some blood on tho upper part of the suit." "Did you notice any blood spots?" "Yes, sir; on the spot wherr- the body lay, and another up the terrace, about four feet away" "Did you find any other articles, lieutenant?" "Yes, sir, I found a glove tramped down in the grass as though it had been stepped on." "Was it a ladv's or a gentleman's glove?" "A lady's glove." "Did you notice anything else about the scene?" "Yes, sir; I noticed that the sod on the side of the slope was broken, as if some one had sat down or fallen down. The ground was slightly damp." "Did you notice spots of blood on the bushes?" "Yes, sir." i "Was there much or little blood on the leaves?" "There were quite a number of leave spotted with blood." "What was the glove you found made of?" "Kid." "On what part of the leaves did you discover thfse drops?"? "On the lower side of the leaves." Lieutenant Saffarans then described the lay of the ground about the scene of the murder in detail. "Were the bushes about the spot where the body lay dense?"

"Quite deiue." "Was the scene concealed from Mr. Locke's house?" "Yes. sir." "If persons were sitting down where the upper clot of blood was found, would they be visible from any point?" "I don't tfiink they could have been seen from either the Alexandria pike or Grand avenue, but I Ihlnk they could have been seen from Mr. Stone's house." The defense then took the witness. A GRCEXCTSLB WITNESS. Clerk Hayes, Who Sold the Shoea to PenrI Ilrynn. Harry Hays, who is connected, with the firm of Louis & Hays, of Greencastle, Ind., was the next witness. He is twenty-eight year3 old. Mr. Hays, of the firm, is his father. Colonel Lockhart asked the questions. "Did you know Pearl t Bryan 7" was the first. "Yes, sir. I knew her well." "Do you know her parents and members of her family?" "Yes, sir." "Did Pearl Bryan purchase a pair of shoes from your store?" "Yes, sir.. On Nov. 18, 12)3, she came in the store with her sister, Mrs. Stanley, and I sold her a pair of shoes." . "How many pairs of shoes of the same size you sold Pearl Bryan did yoa have in stock?' "Just one pair." "Uould you identify the shoes you sold Pearl Bryan?" . "Yes, sir." - '1 The witness then Identlned Pearl Bryan's shoes, the shoes found on the murdered g:ri. "Wnen Miss Bryan purchased -the snoes you have In your hand, did she have on a pair of rubbers?" "Yes. sir." "Would you know the rubbers if you saw them?" "I think I would." Mr. Hayes then identified . the- rubbers found on the murdered girl as the same Pearl Bryan wore into his store. '"I advised her to purchase a new pair. or. rubbers to fit the shoes, but she said she would try and make the old ones do a little while longer." Colonel Crawford then questioned the witness. "Do you know Scott Jackson?" "Yes, sir." "Where ha3 he resided during the time you have known him? "In Greencastle." "What was his general reputation there?" "It was good." "Did you sell Jackson a pair of shoes about a year ago?" "Yes, sir." JACKSON'S SHOES. . Colonel Nelson then requested Jackson to remove his shoes, and the prisoner with some embarrassment complied, much to the amusement of the big audience. Mr. Hays identified the shoes as the ones he sold Jackson,' and attorney Crawford, much to every one's surprise, offered the prisoner's shoes in evidence. Jailer Bitzer secured a pair of slippers for the prisoner and the prosecution took the witness, attorney Hayes questioning him. "Did yew ever hear that Jackson was indicted in New Jersey for embezzlement?" Defense objected and the objection was sustained. "Did you know that Jackson was arrested In Greencastle and sent to the house of refuge for associating with lewd women?" Defense objected and the objection was sustained. "Did Jackson have any reputation at all at Greencastle, either Rood or bad, before he was urrested lor this crime?" . Defense objected, but the objection was overruled. "I never heard his reputation discussed at all." "Did you ever hear anyone say his character was goodT "No sir." "Who was Jackson's most intimate associate in Greencastle?" "He went with Will Wood most of the time." Colonel Crawford then questioned the witness. "How often did you tee Scott Jackson?" "Quite often." "Did he go into society there?" "Yes sir. "What kind cf socle tyV T3 t::t c! cr:l:ty." .

Did you evfr ht&r bad cf the wltr.crt before he was charged with thU eiimer' "Xo. Fir." Witness was then excused, and W. S. Finch, a reporter, was called and qucttlontA by Colonel Nelson. . "Do you know cf a coat being fihtd out of a sewer In Cincinnati?" "Yes. sir." "When was it found T" "The week following Jackson's arrest. "Did you see the coat searched?" "Yes, sir." "What did he fin 1?" "He found some small leaves in the upper side pocket." Colonel Nelson asked the wltmss I! th leaf found in the coat pocket which fcs been lot looked like a leaf which h showed the witness taken from the bushes where the body was found. The wltnos said It did.

WILL WOOD RECALLED. Two Indeeent Letters Written by Him Read by Col. Crawford. Colonel Crawford at 4:10 o'clock announced that he was ready to have Will Wood recalled and a moment lated Wood took the .stand. He evidently expected a hot nro from the defendant's corner. "Where were you the 1st of February, 1S??" began Colonel Crawford. "At Plymouth, Ind." "During what time were you therc? "From Friday noon until Monday noon, "Did you write Jackson -from there T "Yes, sir." "When?" "On Sunday." "Was it In type?" "Yes, sir, I wrote It on a typewriter." Colonel Crawford then handed Wood one of Wood's own letters written to Jackson, and the witness owned writing It. He then owned up to sending Jackson a letter from South Bend, Ind. The letters were then offered in evidence by Colonel Crawford and Judge Helm after a conference with Colonel Crawford ordered all women out of court, as the. letters. It was claimed were too indecent for them to hoar. Colonel Crawford then real the letter. The firs: was from riymouth, Ind., dated Feb, 1. He began by stating that Plymouth was one of a town," and then went on teUIng the good times he hal with the girls there, and then asked Jackson how things were coming on in Cincinnati. Then followed a lot of disgusting, but not particularly criminal eenlences. Wool asked how the "Ky." people were and sent his love to Blanche ot Ludlow. During the reading of the letter, which was funny to the vulgar, Jackson smiled, while Wood, looking thoroughly ashamed, sat as still as death in his chair. Colonel Crawford then read the second letter, dated at South Bend. Ind.. Feb. 3. 180C Wood began by stating that he was raising hell at South Bend and sHid that he was "hot stuff" in that town. He ciaranrd Greencastle, and with profanity and liilthiness the letter ran on for four pages. It was simply a letter written by a very bad ooy with the Intention of making the receiver believe that he was a tough youngf man. The letters were to Jackson Intensely amusing, and he delighted in Wood's discomfiture. Colonel Crawford then asked who Wool referred to wen he mentioned "Ky people" In his letter "I referr to Miss Blanche McCoy,, of Ludlow." Colonel ' Jhn asked the witness If Jackson tw , influence over him. Wood sal had. "What k-..dr "A degrading influence. I did about what he wanted me to and kept up my end of the string with him." "Did you correspond with any other man?" "Yes, sir." "Who?" "A great many." Part of this testimony was objected to by attorney Crawford, and after hearinsr arguments on the point Judge Helm adjourned court until .30 o'clock Tuesday morning. THE CAB DRIVER'S STORY. The George II. Jackson cab story is said to be tottering on its foundations. The police in their investigations worked on the theory that the cab that was driven from Walllngford's saloon, corner of George and Plum streets, Friday evening, was the same one that drove Pearl Bryan over the river. Th ta George Jackfon made his alleged confession, describing the rockaway coupe. In which he eald he drove the ill-fated party over the river to Fort Thomas. Turnkey Underwood found a vehicle answering the description in Chester Mullen's stable, cn McMillan street. Walnut Hills. Siranpely enough, the coupe was usually driven with a gray horse, just a Jackson had described.- Mullen told the po- . lice a story which appeared to corroborate the colored: coachman's 'confession. It was to the effect that the vehicle In question had been hired cut on the fated Friday afternoon or evening and not returnei till about 4. o'clock the next morning. Mullen said he thought that the man who hired the cb was WallinR. He said he mw Walling and Jackson talking on the sidewalk in front 'of his stablo Just before Walllne, according to hli ftory, rented the cab. Not only thtt. but livery stable owner Martin, whose establishment Is Just opposite Mullen's,, also came forward and paid that the man tried to hire a cab without a driver from him. Mullen aain came forward and said that he remembered that the man who hired the. rcckaway frcm him came from Martin's stable. Miss Martin, a Ulster of the proprietor of the -table, said that she saw the man who tried to nire the cab " from her. brother, observed him carefuily and she U sure that It was Walline. But there is & stumbling block in the testimony of private watchman Kinney, of the Grand Central Depot. He is sure , that Walling and Pearl Bryan were In the lower waiting room between about 2:10 p. m. and 4:15 p. m. on that Friday afternoon. He ?aw them a number of times and was especially attracted to the girl because she was crying and seemed as if she wanted to speak to him. Mullen says he hired out his- rockaway that day some time between 4 and7 p. m., as near as he can remember It. Mi?s Martin says It was about dusk. Her brother,' the driver of the stable, will testify on the stand that he is positive it was between 2 and 4 p. m. on the fatal Friday. H3 remembers it very well and says he will be able to satisfy everybody that he is right about the hour. It is expected that the defensewill make a strong point out of this appar ent discrepancy xn tne testimony. . Jackson! Mother to Attend.. ' Special to the Indianapolis JournaL GPwEEZXCASTLE. In!, April CL-The Greencastle interest In the Jackson trial now. centers in the line of the defense, as it 1s -believed that the prosecution has put up a chain of evidence, completed by cabman Jackson, that cannot te fcroken. Especial Interest Is manifested in the attack that promises to be made on the evidence of YJH Wood. The depositions of young Grooms, Newhouse, Hunt and other Greer.cartle boys who have been mentioned In the ci&o. will be eagerly read."as the youns men are of prominent families, have good characters ahl are knon to be truthful. Their word would be conslCered good evidence anywhere. . When the defer.se side of the case opens it Is thought that bom Mr. Jackson and Mrs. Post, mother and eiter, repec;ivtiy, of ejeort Jackson, will attend, and the meetlrg between the relatives will no dojb; be touoning. Mrs. Jackson is Improved In health, and Sunday afternoon was given a long carriage ride by h neishbor friend. Dr. Iot arrived home Saturday night from Newporu The second week .of the trial promises to cause more excitement here than the first. Reciprocity Statistic. Washington Special In Chicago Tost. The sratiiticlan of the Treasury Departmtnt has been engaged for some tL-ne in the preparation of a report showing In a rtatistj. cal way the commercial results of reciprocity as measured by the volume of cur foreign trale. The work was not undertaken voluntarily, but at the sjges;ion of Congress. It Is almost needless to remark that t.ie findings are not to the satisfaction of me free-trade -element, which fcr some inexplicable reason has always opposed the lie: of reciprocity. Cafried to its lejti'm. :e conclusions, reciprooljy would In the fjlk-ess of time pat U3 on a free-trade basis as nearly as we could ever get. for it would plice our foreign traie on terms of greatest m itual advantage to the countries with .vhom we are doing businesa. and that is practical frc trade, diverted of its offensive meaning and contalninjf lso (paradoxical us It may seem), the essence of protection the greatest good to the members of our Immediate family. The s:atlstlcs prepare! by Wor;hlns: C. Ford will show that from Ik.l or thereabouts our forelma trade had a sUadv growth; that durina the year of reciprocity t;ndrr the operations of 'ne McKinley tariff law It had tremendous growth with thofe potion with whom reciprocal relations had been established, and that during the las: kao years trad, with those same countries had languished materially, ilr. Ford doe not attempt to analyze the figures he rres?nta. leaving foit for the volunteer in the tic-; t of political economy, but In explanation ot the bad showins, irom a free-trftl- i:in point, he apcic-ttJcnlly remark that :rj.i? was bad every cr.:ri." Itz revert r.i'i I: oat la a Iztt e " .